Introducing Paper – Stories from Facebook

Today, we’re introducing Paper, a new app that helps you explore and share stories from friends and the world around you.

Paper makes storytelling more beautiful with an immersive design and fullscreen, distraction-free layouts. We’ve also made it easier to craft and share beautiful stories of your own.

Your Paper is made of stories and themed sections, so you can follow your favorite interests. The first section in Paper is your Facebook News Feed, where you’ll enjoy inspiring new designs for photos, videos, and longer written posts. You can customize Paper with a choice of more than a dozen other sections about various themes and topics—from photography and sports to food, science and design. Each section includes a rich mix of content from emerging voices and well-known publications.

Storytelling and sharing have been reimagined in Paper to show stories at their best.

Everything responds to your touch so you can pick up or thumb through stories with simple, natural movements

You can tilt your phone to explore high-resolution panoramic photos from corner to corner, and see faces and other important details up close

Fullscreen autoplay videos come to life and bring you deep into the action

Beautifully detailed covers make it easy to spot articles from trusted publishers and decide what to read or watch

Articles unfold in the app and appear fullscreen for a focused reading experience

When you’re ready to tell your own story, you know exactly what your post or photo will look like because you see a live preview before you share it

Paper is the first product from Facebook Creative Labs, where we’re crafting new apps to support the diverse ways people want to connect and share. The app will be available for the iPhone in the US on February 3rd. For an early look, you can take a tour of Paper.

Update as of 2/3/14: Paper is now available in the US for iPhone on the App Store.